Enoch Poor

Enoch Poor (21 June 1736-8 September 1780) was a Brigadier-General of the Continental Army of the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Enoch Poor was born on 21 June 1736 in Andover, Massachusetts, and he joined the colonial militia of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War, fighting in the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the expulsion of the Acadians. However, he was involved with the patriots since the 1765 Stamp Act protests, and in 1775 he was twice elected to the Provincial Assembly. Poor became the colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment at the start of the American Revolutionary War, taking part in the siege of Boston, 1775 invasion of Canada, and the fall of Fort Ticonderoga in 1777. Poor distinguished himself in the Battles of Saratoga, leading the American left flank at the Battle of Freeman's Farm, performing well against John Burgoyne's army. At the Battle of Bemis Heights, Poor's brigade repulsed John Dyke Acland's grenadiers, and he would fight at the battle of Monmouth in 1778 and in the Sullivan Expedition in 1779. Afterwards, he was assigned to the Marquis de Lafayette's division on garrison duty in New Jersey, and on 6 September 1780 he was shot in a duel in Hackensack. Poor died two days later of typhus.